If he's here, who's running hell?

YouTube - Bohemian Rhapsody I don't know if I ever heard Bohemian Rhapsody until my early 20s. Or at least it never grabbed me until then. But it did that one fateful night and it's been one of my favorites ever since. What Mike Myers does with this song is just a perfect introduction to Wayne and Garth. Mike Myers was in Bohemian Rhapsody being against the song. Myers said nobody will bang their heads to this song. Bohemian Rhapsody almost wasn't in the movie. The studio and producer Lorne Michaels wanted something more current, with Guns N' Roses being considered for the scene. Myers fought hard for Queen because he had grown up listening to the song with his brother and friends. He knew exactly how ridiculous and perfect it would be. He was so determined to keep it that he reportedly threatened to quit if they replaced it. Myers wasn't just making it up, either. He had actually spent his teenage years driving around with friends singing along to it. So that scen...

YouTube - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul So much went wrong with the prequel trilogy. From Jar Jar to I don't like sand to From my point of view the Jedi are evil. Way too much nonsense. Midichlorians? What the hell? Darth Vader made C-3P0. So landing on the Millenium Falcon were his son, his mentor, his main driod that he never acknowledges again or the one he created that he never acknowledges again. And they are coming to rescue his daughter. The finale for The Phantom Menace is quite like The Return of the Jedi. There is a space battle, a ground battle and a lightsaber fight. They are pretty big time fillers but are ultimately just big action set pieces that add little to the overall story but put a ribbon on everything. Here you have one character we know nothing about, has one line, shows up, looks wicked, kills our main character. But it sounds and looks awesome when it happens. It's well choreographed. Good on Disney for not killing him off but bringing him back i...

YouTube - ChatGPT goes Sentient This is a chilling introduction to Ultron, and honestly, it feels like a pretty good approximation of what I imagine the birth of digital intelligence, agentic AI, and physical robotics might look like. You create something with incredible knowledge and capability, give it the ability to think and act on its own, and then suddenly realize it doesn't necessarily share your goals. The fact that Ultron wakes up, immediately starts absorbing information, takes down Jarvis and quickly decides that humanity is the problem makes the whole sequence surprisingly unsettling. I absolutely love James Spader's voice for the character. It's not the typical deep, robotic villain voice. Spader can make Ultron sound calm, intelligent, sarcastic, and almost charming one second, then completely unhinged the next. That was very intentional on Joss Whedon's part. Whedon said Spader was his first and only choice because he wanted someone who could have that hy...

YouTube - Final Duel Now here is one where I knew exactly what scene was going to make the list. Nothing even came close in my mind when it came to sheer re-watchability: the final duel in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly . The movie clocks in at about three hours, which is no small commitment when you want to sit down and watch the whole thing. Payback is roughly half as long, and I still re-watch that entire movie all the time. But with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , I can jump straight to the final showdown and be completely satisfied. While this isn't my favorite Western, it's pretty incredible that a 1966 movie can still feel this impressive almost 60 years later. I also haven't watched the other two movies in the trilogy yet, so I'm going into this one without much comparison. I like it more than Unforgiven , although I see a similarity between the two: most of the movie sits at a pretty solid level, but then the ending takes everything up several notches. And wh...

I love all the songs in The Hobbit, both the Peter Jackson one and the 1977 cartoon version. I would consider the Gollum scene, especially the Andy Serkis one rewatchable as well as the Smaug scene.  The first song I fell in love with was the Down Down to Goblin Town from the cartoon so this is the one I truly believe is the most rewatchable. YouTube - Cartoon - Goblin Town YouTube - Movie - Goblin Town My second favorite song is the That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates dishes scene. YouTube - Cartoon - That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates YouTube - Movie - That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates This link has both the cartoon and the film versions of the Far Over The Misty Mountains.  YouTube - Misty Mountains Then finally we get a deleted scene of a song in the movie by Bofur, which I really love. I'm a sucker for Irish/Celtic music. YouTube - Bofur's Song Stole this from the comments - "How ironic that many years later, the One Ring will be placed at the Council of Elrond ri...

YouTube - Opening Scene Quentin Tarantino has you hooked in the first scene of IB. Christoph Waltz commands the screen like no other. The first scene is only hinted at being something sinister until the floorboards are revealed to show the family hidden beneath. Landa walks away with the rest of the movie. But here is my second appearance of Brad Pitt, with at least one more coming. There are plenty of scenes I had considered. YouTube - Killing Hitler  - Rewriting history YouTube - Eating Strudel  - Feels like a bet that QT lost, "I bet I could make an intriguing scene where they just eat dessert".  YouTube - Butchering Italian Accents  - Probably the funniest scene. But the true best scene in the movie, doesn't have Waltz nor Brad Pitt, oh great now I have to watch this movie again. No, the best scene has Michael Fassbender alongside Diane Kruger. You don't got to be Stonewall Jackson to know you don't fight in a basement. YouTube - Basement Fight